Idioms as multi-word expressions in Turkish

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Güven, Arzu Burcu
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Idioms constitute several challenges for both Natural Language Processing (NLP) and linguistic analysis. A better understanding of idioms will yield valuable insights about natural language as well as the way it is processed. The relevance of idioms, along with the fact that Turkish is a rather unexplored language from this perspective, motivates us to work on Turkish idioms. Here, we aim to demonstrate a grammatical study on Turkish idioms that were selected in accordance with distributional models.
MWE, Idiom, CCG, Distributional Semantics, Word Embedding
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/69061
Graduate School of Informatics, Thesis

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A. B. Güven, “Idioms as multi-word expressions in Turkish,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2020.
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